rattlesnake plantain

1. 1.

   any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme

   Synonymshelleborine

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofGoodyera

Questions about rattlesnake plantain

What does rattlesnake plantain mean?

rattlesnake plantain means "any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme".

What is another word for rattlesnake plantain?

Close synonyms include helleborine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rattlesnake plantain a common word?

rattlesnake plantain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.